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British Member Of Parliament Inspirational Quotes (25)

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If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.
Edwina Currie
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The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
Alan Clark
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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark
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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
Alan Clark
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The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.
Alan Clark
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The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, if you only knew! Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
Edwina Currie
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Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.
Eleanor Rathbone
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In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
Alan Clark
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Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.
Edwina Currie
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Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
Edwina Currie
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I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.
Eleanor Rathbone
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One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
Robert Rhodes James
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continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
Eleanor Rathbone
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Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.
Edwina Currie
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There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
Eleanor Rathbone
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My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.
Edwina Currie
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Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.
Edwina Currie
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It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.
Roger Helmer
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By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better.
Roger Helmer
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There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
Edwina Currie
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Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.
Roger Helmer
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Casualties? What do I care about casualties?
Aylmer Hunter-Weston
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One man's priority is another man's extravagence.
Edwina Currie
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There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
Alan Clark
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